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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH TUESDAY, MAY 4, 1937.

WORLD'S BIGGEST RADIUM FIND GOOD POSTURE! BY PENNILESS MINER

"Curse Of Pharaohs" Strikes Again

Edinburgh, Apr. 15.

Sir Alexander Salon, British soldier-diplomat, is, trying vainly to give away the bone of a 3,000- year-old Egyptian before another "curse of the Pharaoha" visits his terrified household.

Sir Alexander, hereditary armour bearer to the King, half- jokingly and half-seriously blamed the Pharaohic curse for a scries of strange disasters experienced by his family since his wife brought the bone from Екурс.

Twice he has given it away, and cach time got II buck with a territy- ing story of strange happenings.

Lady Seton oblained the bone in Gizeh, Egypt, where she attended | the formal opening of a tomb, the contents of which dated back to the 20th dynasty, or about 1,100 years Before Christ.

The tomb was only a short dis- tance from the famous pyramids of Gized

the burial place of Queen;

He thee of the rarest finds!

of

The disaster, came quickly.

Sir Alexander said..

First there were sudden illnesses in the household, two mysterious

fires broke out, maids refused to work there and visitors said they were awakened to see "ghost" roaming about. Glassware crashed

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In the middle of the 'night.

Str

Alexander gave the bone to

́a surgeon who returned it two days with the explanation that his maid had broken her leg in a foll while fleeing from a "white-robed figurk that looked like

a mummy come to life."

Several days ago Sir Alexander

taiting a visitor upstairs, he

specimen is kept.

"We heard д

muffled noise and,

ROMAN CUBS IN SPAIN—"Cubs of the Roman Welt" are the words on the radiator of this truck captured by Loyalist troops while fighting on the Guadalajara front in Spain recently. Pre- mier Mussolini's cubs did not do so well, according to reporta, Buffering severo rout and sinughter at the hands of eacmi Maja's seasoned campaigners.

JEWELS VANISH

Two-Day Liner Hunt: Page Accused

A

New York, Apr. 21.

said, to the room, where the bone SIXTEEN-YEAR-OLD pageboy in the Cunarder Aquitania was locked in the ship's brig on her re- found the ginss case lying on the cruise to-day. He is accused of stealing several thousand upon opening the door of the room, turn to New York from a forty-day South American been ground under some body's heel. pounds' worth of jewellery.

floor near its table.

The glass had

"The accident was baffling be- Mrs. R. W. Higgins, wife of unwill be taken back to Southampton cause, in addition to the fact that no American mining magnate, lost the on the next voyage and handed over one had been in the room, the table jewels Just Tuesday. After a two-to the civil authorities.

they were found in a only two feet high and the day search floor Was

thickly carpeted."-locker. United Press.

Captain R. B, Irving said the boy criminal charge.

"TAKE THIS

Priceless Boon To Britain's Hospitals

Toronto, April 25,

THE greatest find of radium the world has ever known -discovered in the sub-Arctic wastes of Canada by-

a penniless prospector—is revoluntionising the supply of this precious commodity.

Coronation Curiosities

By Harold B. Corble

FORTRESS SANCTUARY

BUCKINGHAM PALACE is the

beginning and the end of the royal procession at the coronation of King George VI. In early days, lowever, the route wns much longer and arrival at various points covered a period of days.

Workings noar Echo Bay, in! the Great Bear Lake territory, are to-day producing radium in quantitles hitherto undreamed of.

Already the effect of the yield has been to reduce the world) price of radium by almost two- thirds-to £5,000 a grum.

The abundant supply of this Canadian radium, which is of the finest grade, has brought it with- In the reach of many British hospitals which otherwihe would colossal cost. not have been able to pay the

And Gilbert Labine, the one-time

The coronation ceremonies really penniless wanderer who found the began with the procession from the mine, has become a millionaire. Tower of London, where the King EPIC OF COURAGE

had gone after his accession to the

Route of this year's coronation possession.

throne, to Westminster Hall. While

soon

Labine Point, the location of the radium mine, has been named after him, and recently he attended a banquet of honour given to him by the Canadian Government.

show

Yet not long ago he w958 tramping

through tho blizzards, poor and unknown, looking for copper. Instead of copper he found radiums.

To-day Mr. Labine is working with n band of miners on a scam. of pitchblende over 580ft. below ground. The deeper in the mine one goes the wider and richer the vein becomes.

The story of the dramatic dis- covery is an epic of courage and perseverance.

Labine was almost down and out

The country was

Д prospectors'

the real reason for confining him when he left Otlawn to stake copper self in the Tower is now in doubt, presumably he desired to place him-claims at Hunter Bay, in the Great until his possession of the throne was RADIUM PARADISE

Bear Lake, territory, self in safe keeping in the fortress

undisputed.

too To emerge Mrs. Higgins has refused to sign a from sanctuary in those rugged days paradise, Docks and stones-

was to risk a dagger plunged into the royal epidermis and resultant entirely exposed. consternalion, at least

With Mr. E. temporarily,

C. Paul, another among the arrangers of the pageant, prospector, he trainped towards the What was needed most of all, and north, facing terrible weather. silli is needed to-day, was a King alive and whole and able to mount his steed without too great moan- Ing or blood-letting.

LETTER...

Froda Smith loft school with visions of. becoming

a socrotary with a salary, that meant indo- pendence. She took her business training

classes.seriously, but. after a time........

mar, Tuenty minutes late,

Miss Smith? This won't -do-punctuality is the key-note of business training. It isa? the First Hene either!

Six mistakes in

one letter. Miss.

Smith! You're getting, more careless

every day-1 know you can do better

then that!

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THEY SAW-THE HORLICKS FILM

Tours Faithfully,

That Horlicks film

Everything's wrong. Mums! Don't know whath The matter with me. Got a fearful Jawing from old Taylor-she said id never

ger job.

Oh-she

did? Well, look here, deor-you're a bit tired and strung up now-let's go to the pictures, shall we? We can talk it over

-afterwards.

we saw gave me an idas, Freda¬ you want something to buck you up. Remind me to get some Horlicks when

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NIGHT STARVATION

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were

Their eyelids were frozen to- gether when they awake in the mornings, and until they had rubbed their Cycs they istere completely blind. Near Echo Bay, Paul was struck

The evening before the proces- sion, started,

the King appointed with sad

pany him 'on

the morrow. Some

alone with his shorthandled

his personal bodyguard to accom-off new blindness, so Labine went! researchers say these were the prospector's pick. original Knights of the Bath, In- To his astonishment he found a stituted by Henry IV in 1309. Others rich vein of blackish-blue ore assert that Order was not founded pitchblende that produced radium.

Exeltedly he sent off a sample

until much later.

But records show that Henry v to the National Research Laboratory who-acceded to the throne-in-1413, at Ottawa. The answer flashed named fifty of these gentlemen and back that the sample was the richest they, with various noblemen and in radium the laboratory had officers and the mayor and aldermen

analysed of London, accompanied him on his

Labine sank a shaft and started journey from the Tower to West-only a tiny log cabin, is the greatest miring, To-day, where once stood

minster Hall.

The route Was much different radium mine the world has seen. from the one to be taken by King George. James II, who came to the throne in 1885, discontinued the procession at his coronation,

They Found Cure For T.B.

This year, as shown by the dotted line, the King's procession will starti at Buckingham Palace and go down the Mali past St. James's Park, to Trafalgar Square. Then it will turn, to the right

Salt Lake City, Apr. 25. along Whitehall and Parliament Street and cross Parlia

- An Arctic Island where ment Square to Westminster Abbey. Eskimo children subsist on Black line shows the returning route, animal fats and seal oil and along Victoria Embankment, through

Northumberland Avenue, and Traf- never suffer tuberculosis is algar Square, eventually circling by drawing the attention of Dr. way of Regent and Oxford Streets, Victor Levine, Creighton Univer up Park Lane and along Constitution sity scientist, who is seeking a Hill to Buckingham Palace again.

12-Foot Ape Reported

cure for the disease.

He announced he would accompany father Bernard J. Hubbard, the "Glacier priest-explorer" to the Northland this spring.

King

Their laboratory will be lonely Island, off the northernmost tip of Alaska. Father Hubbard is going there to study the Eskimos' means of travel across Ice Does. Ho is planning an expedition in 1040. undiscovered fand that he believes lies somewhere between Alaska and the North Pole, in 18 months he

HUGE FOOTPRINTS ON farther north, in search of an

RIVER BANK

Rio De Janeiro, April 15.

hopes to learn from King Island Evidence of the existence of a eskimos the best modes of travelling giant ape, at least 12 feet in across the Arctic wastes to his goal. height, has been brought by University's award for outstanding Dr. Levine, who received Columbla travellers returning to civilisa service to humanity, will spend his tion from the State of Goyaz, in

time on the Island studying the natives diet. Sea! the heart of Brazil.

oil, one of the chlef items, is rich in Vitamin D and, They report that gold prospectors the doctor thinks there may be some on the banks of the Araguaya River connection between that and the lacks have heard strange roaring Bounds of tuberculosis among the people. coming from-the virgin forest.

Father Hubbard is

theory pursuing a Huge footprints, resembling that Alaska proves the existence of Innd that the northern flight of birds from of a man and measuring 21 inches in to the north. He has obtained one length, are also stated to have been clue in the discovery of the body of discovered.

an ca

eskimo on the north Alaskan const. In the same arca number of The eskimo wore clothes that have catlle have been found idled-and in been obsolete in Alaska for 200 years, every case the tongue had been indicating that he may have lived wrenched out-Router.

beyond the sphe

the sphere of the white man's influence.

Goyaz, which has an area of 208,- The expedition will salf from 402 square miles, is the most back- Seattle May 20, Kenneth Chisholm, ward of the Brazilian States, and a former. Santa Clara University large portion of territory in Its student: Edgar Levin, San Francisco, northern districts 19 unexplored, and Bernard Stanley, Santa Extensive forests fringe most of the undergraduate, will accompany rivers,

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